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PROVO 

Early  History 
1888 


THE 


GADDED  CITY  OF  UTAH 


ITS  :  RESOURCES  :  AND  :  ATTRACTIONS. 


PUBLISHED  UNDER  THE  AUSPICES  OF 


,     CC^O^  \ 

of 


1533. 


D.    C.    DUNBAR    &   CO.,    PUBLISHERS. 
OMAHA,    NEBRASKA. 


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PBOVO. 

EARLY    HISTORY. 


at  the  base  of  the  Wasatch  Range,  where 
its  deeply  seamed  front  towers  high  and  precipitously 
toward  the  sky,  lies  Provo,  the  "Garden  City"  of  Utah. 
The  pioneers  of  Utah  entered  the  Great  Salt  Lake  Val- 
ley in  the  fall  of  1847,  and  in  the  following  spring  a  small  party 
from  this  body  started  south  on  an  exploring  expedition.  Im- 
mediately on  reaching  the  summit  of  the  divide,  between  what 
are  now  Salt  Lake  and  Utah  Counties,  they  gazed  southward, 
and  beheld  stretched  out  before  them,  calm  and  undisturbed, 
a  beautiful  sheet  of  water  some  thirty  miles  in  length,  hemmed 
in  on  all  sides  by  towering  peaks,  with  yet  enough  of  plain  to 
tempt  the  settler,  and  with  many  streams  pouring  out  from 
rugged  ravines,  threading  their  silvery  way  through  the  un- 
cultivated area  until  lost  amid  the  sleeping  waters  of  the  lake. 
Roaming  along  the  banks  of  these  rivers  in  search  of  game, 
and  about  the  shores  of  the  lake,  was  a  tribe  of  Indians  who 
possessed  the  spot  as  their  own.  They  were  the  "Utes," 
though  the  opinion  of  some  is  that  they  properly  should  be 
called  "Pah  Utes,"  or  "Water  Utes."  The  fact  seems  to  be 
that  not  only  this  lake  and  Utah  County,  but  even  the  territory, 
ultimately  derived  the  name  "Utah"  from  this  tribe,  and  that 
"Piute"  county  is  only  "Pah  Ute"  corrupted,  or  improved,  as 
we  may  choose  to  think. 

Be  this  as  it  may,  the  exploring  party,  satisfied  with  the 
inviting  appearance  of  the  spot,  reported  favorably,  and  a 
party  soon  started  south  to  colonize  the  newly  discovered 
section.  An  agreement  was  made  with  the  Indians  by  which 
the  pioneers  were  permitted  to  locate  in  the  new  valley,  and  a 
fort  was  built  at  a  point  a  short  distance  below  the  spot  where 


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the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railway  track  now  spans  the  "  Tim- 
panogas"  River. 

Accessions  to  the  new  settlement  caused  an  extension  of 
its  borders,  and,  as  circumstances  permitted  it,  the  tendency 
seemed  to  be  to  go  closer  to  the  mountains  on  the  east.  Ulti- 
mately the  first  site  of  Provo  or  "Utah  Fort,"  was  abandoned, 
and  the  city  built  a  little  further  away  from  the  "  Timpanogas  'r 
River,  which  now  supplies  Provo  with  water. 

How  the  place  came  to  be  called  Provo,  is  not  an  absolutely 
settled  point;  but  the  more  plausible  explanation,  and  that 


PROVO   WOOLEN   MILLS. 

most  generally  credited,  is  found  in  the  following  story:  Gen- 
eral Fremont,  on  his  first  exploring  trip  to  the  Pacific,  passed 
through  this  valley  when  returning  eastward.  Before  leaving 
the  Missouri  River  on  his  journey  westward,  the  General  bought 
a  fine  blooded  animal  from  a  Frenchman  named  "Proveau." 
This  animal  carried  him  to  the  Chores  of  the  Pacific  and  as  far 
as  our  valley  on  his  return,  when  it  sickened  and  died.  The 
"  Pathfinder"  had  become  greatly  attached  to  the  horse,  and 
named  the  spot  where  it  was  buried  after  the  animal  itself,  it 
having  been  known  by  the  name  of  the  Frenchman  from  whom 
Fremont  had  purchased  it.  The  other  theory  is  that  "  Provo'* 
is  so  called  after  an  old  mountaineer  and  trapper  who  made 


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the  valley,  the  border  of  Utah  Lake,  and  the  course  of  the 
"  Timpanogas  v  River  the  scene  of  his  periodical  hunting  and 
trapping  visits. 

The  word  "Timpanogas,"  signifies  "rushing  water,"  or, 
putting  it  more  graphically,  "  rocky  torrent,"  or  the  tumultuous 
rushing  of  water  over  a  rocky  bed. 


COURT  HOUSE   AND   CITY  HALL. 

The  early  history  of  Provo,  if  written,  would  be  devoted  in- 
the  main  to  a  recital  of  extreme  hardships,  resulting  from  bit- 
ter and  almost  incessant  Indian  wars.  While  the  pioneers  of 
that  place  were  permitted  to  establish  themselves  by  a  friendly 
arrangement  with  the  red  men,  it  did  not  long  continue.  The> 
Indians  soon  began  a  characteristic  and  most  violent  warfare- 
upon  the  hardy  settlers.  In  founding  this  now  fruitful  and 
prosperous  locality,  not  a  few  of  the  best  men  were  killed.  It 


PROVO  ILLUSTRATED. 

was  practically  a  continuous  struggle,  with  brief  seasons  only 
for  the  pursuit  of  agriculture.  But  as  the  early  settlers  had 
gone  there  to  stay,  and  were  possessed  of  that  courage  which 
is  characteristic  of  the  men  who  settled  this  territory,  the 
locality  prospered  and  grew,  notwithstanding  the  Indian  depre- 
dations and  the  loss  of  many  able  men  in  the  predatory  warfare 
which  the  Indians  so  persistently  maintained.  There  is  left, 
it  is  true,  little  or  no  trace  of  the  struggles  through  which  this 
thriving  city  was  founded;  and  only  occasionally,  as  the  mind 
of  some  veteran  reverts  to  earlier  days,  do  those  now  enjoying 
the  peace  and  prosperity  which  prevail  here,  realize,  even  in 


TERRITORIAL  INSANE  ASYLUM. 

the  most  distant  sense,  how  dearly  the  blessings  by  which 
they  are  surrounded  were  purchased.  Pleasant  it  is,  and 
sweet,  to  behold  these  cultivated  fields  and  numberless  homes 
where  the  people  dwell  in  comfort,  surrounded  by  the  luxuries 
of  modern  times;  but  few  there  are  who  can  appreciate  the 
extent  of  labor  that  has  been  performed  to  bring  about  the  de- 
lightful results  which  everywhere  in  this  valley  charm  the  eye. 
But  if  the  thoughtful  will  pause  and  consider  through  what 
struggles  these  results  have  been  achieved,  the  sense  of  ad- 
miration for  the  persevering  toil  of  those  who  founded  this 
prosperous  commonwealth  must  overshadow  all  other  feelings 
and  leave  little  room  for  other  sentiments  than  those  in  which 
reverence  for  the  pioneers  predominate.  It  is  impossible  to 


PROVO   ILLUSTRATED.  (J 

estimate  the  extent  of  wealth  contained  in  the  canals  and 
ditches  by  which  the  fruitful  acres  of  this  valley  are  watered. 
How  slowly,  and  with  what  excess  of  unyielding  toil,  these? 
were  built,  only  those  who  participated  in  the  work  can  realize. 
The  wealth,  not  only  of  this  valley,  but  of  our  whole  territory, 
is  represented  more  in  its  canals  and  irrigating  ditches  than  in 
any  other  direction— perhaps  more  than  in  all  other  directions 
combined.  Millions  of  dollars  in  the  hardest  coin — the  honest 
sweat  of  honest  men— have  been  spent  in  canals;  and  those 


FIRST  NATIONAL   BANK. 

who  live  to-day,  who  prosper  and  enjoy  comforts  that,  without 
these  canals,  would  be  unknown  here,  can  never  fully  sens& 
how  great  is  their  indebtedness  to  those  who  fought  and 
worked,  who  worked  and  fought,  that  this  county  and  this- 
city  might  be. 

THE  CAPITAL   OF  UTAH   COUNTY. 

Provo  is  the  capital  of  Utah  County.  This  county  is  second 
in  population  in  Utah.  The  city  is  surrounded  by  one  of  the- 
richest  agricultural  sections  in  the  whole  territory;  there  being- 
settlements  continuously  north  and  south  of  it,  and  around  the- 
western  base  of  the  Wasatch  Mountains  ?or  a  distance  of 


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forty  miles.  The  people  are  prosperous,  and  unitedly  strive  to 
promote,  as  well  as  participate  in  a  growth  which  is  now  quite 
rapid,  not  only  in  the  city,  but  also  in  the  entire  county.  Being 
the  first  born  of  the  county,  and  its  capital,  Provo  has  naturally 


PROVO  CENTRAL  SCHOOL. 

been  built  up  more  rapidly  and  more  solidly  than  its  neighbors. 
The  population  of  the  city  is  between  5,000  and  6,000. 

It  is  a  peculiarity  of  this  place,  that  all  who  make  it  their 
home,  become  thoroughly  and  substantially  identified  with  it, 
-working  unitedly  for  its  prosperity  and  progress. 

RESOURCES  AND  OPPORTUNITIES. 

If  Provo  is  so  favorably  situated  as  a  place  for  the  build- 
ing of  a  home,  it  is  no  less  desirable  as  a  locality  for  the  invest- 


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merit  of  means  and  for  the  establishment  of  manufacturing 
enterprises.  Surrounded  by  boundless  resources,  prominent 
among  which  are  almost  limitless  agricultural  opportunities 
which  lend  substantial  aid  to  the  mining  investment,  the  mar. 
vel  is  that  comparatively  so  little  advancement  has  been 
made,  situated  almost  in  the  heart  of  the  Territory,  considered 
-as  to  population,  and  nearly  in  the  centre  geographically, 


PROVO    OPERA  HOUSE. 

Provo  is  rapidly  being  viewed  as  the  coming  seat  for  manufac- 
turing in  Utah.  Its  fitness  for  the  position  is  the  more  pre- 
sumable from  the  fact  that  no  other  point  along  the  western 
base  of  the  Wasatch,  situated  as  near  the  centre  in  trade  and 
population,  possesses  equal  facilities  either  in  the  matter  of 
power  for  operating  manufactures,  or  in  the  abundance  of  re- 
sources easy  of  access  and  upon  which  industries  may  be 
founded. 

Unlimited  manufacturing  opportunities  once  conceded,  the 
Jiext  point  in  connection  with  the  growth  of  manufacture  in 


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this  section  is  the  ease  with  which  ingress  and  egress  may  be 
obtained  by  means  of  railroads  for  the  exportation  of  the 
goods  manufactured,  for  the  supply  of  coal,  and  if  it  be  neces- 
sary, for  the  inbringing  of  raw  material.  That  Provo  is 
blessed  with  these  advantages  in  abundance  will  be  clearly 
shown  in  this  pamphlet. 


8.    8.   JONES*  MERCANTILE  ESTABLISHMENT. 
WATER   POWER   AND   SUPPLY. 

In  an  economical  sense,  the  chief  feature  of  Provo  is  its 
opportunities  for  the  founding  of  manufactures.  Its  water 
power,  extending  a  distance  almost  of  seven  miles  without  di- 
minishing the  force  of  the  stream,  or  interfering  with  its  util- 
ity for  irrigating  purposes,  is  inferior  to  none  in  the  Rocky 
Mountain  Region.  The  "Timpanogas"  is  a  constant  and  un- 
failing source  of  industrial  power,  and  scarcely  any  limit  can 
be  placed  to  the  possibilities  it  presents  for  the  operation  of 


PROVO   ILLUSTRATED. 


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any  number  of  manufactures  that  may  be  built  upon  its  banks. 
It  is  already  the  site  of  the  largest  Woolen  Mill  Manufactur- 
ing establishment  in  the  west, — the  "Provo  Woolen  Mills," — 
and  the  marked  success  being  achieved  in  this  branch  of  local 
industry,  points  emphatically  to  the  assured  prosperity  of 
other  industries,  on  equal  scale,  when  the  needed  capital  is  in- 
vested in  the  many  other  directions  for  which  the  locality  is  so 
eminently  fitted. 

It  may  also  be  well  to  add  that  in  recent  years  the  sinking 
of  artesian  wells  has  been  introduced  with  results  astonishing- 
ly successful.  There  seems  to  be  no  limit  to  the  subterranean 
reservoirs  over  which,  not  only  Provo,  but  Utah  County  gen- 


PROVO  LUMBER  AND   MANUFACTURING  MILLS. 

erally  is  located ;  and  what  is  more  striking  still,  is  the  fact 
that,  on  the  average,  these  wells  require  to  be  sunk  less  than 
200  feet  in  order  to  obtain  a  good  supply  of  water,  almost  un- 
excelled for  its  purity  and  admirably  adapted  both  for  culinary 
purposes  and  for  irrigation.  Another  interesting  feature  in 
this  connection,  is  the  fact  that  there  is  no  perceptible  diminu- 
tion in  the  water  in  wells  already  in  existence  by  the  sinking 
of  new  ones.  It  is,  therefore,  reasonably  inferred  that  practic- 
ally no  limit  can  be  placed  to  the  supply.  Arrangements  are 
now  making  for  the  sinking  of  a  huge  well  on  the  elevated 
plateau  north  of  the  city,  by  Denver  parties ;  and  the  persons 
interested  are  so  confident  of  success  that  the  securing  of 
water  means  to  them  simply  a  matter  of  the  time  necessary 


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to  sink  the  required  depth.  These  wells,  as  before  stated, 
being  valuable  for  irrigating  purposes,  there  can  be  no  reason- 
able probability  of  a  time  coming  when  there  will  be  a  lack  of 
water  for  all  purposes  in  and  about  the  city  of  Provo.  As  to- 
the  quality  of  the  water  supplied  by  the  Timpanogas  River,  it 
need  only  be  said  that  a  brighter,  a  purer  and  a  clearer  stream 
is  nowhere  to  be  found.  Distributed  over  the  fields,  running 
through  the  charming  "Garden  City"  in  countless  uncovered 
streams  that  adorn  either  side  of  each  street  and  afford  moist- 


THE  NEW   WEST   SCHOOL. 

ure  for  the  shade  trees  everywhere  abounding,  it  gives  a  fresh- 
ness and  a  perennial  delight  peculiar  to  few  other  cities  in  the 
world,  outside  of  Utah. 

IRON  ORE. 

In  Utah  County,  not  far  from  Provo  City,  are  situated  vast 
iron  fields  capable  of  furnishing  millions  of  tons  of  ore  for  the 
manufacture  of  iron,  so  free  in  its  nature  that  it  is  used  as  a 
flux  in  the  smelters  of  Salt  Lake  Valley.  This  will  yet  find 
labor  for  thousands  of  people  and  bring  in  return  millions  of 
dollars  annually  to  the  territory,  and  to  this  city  and  county 
more  particularly,  when  the  day  arrives  that  Utah  iron  re- 
ceives the  attention  which  its  magnitude  merits.  There  has 


PROVO  ILLUSTRATED.  15- 

been  incorporated  in  Provo  a  company  known  as  "The  Utah 
Valley  Iron  Mining  and  Manufacturing  Company,"  its  present 
officers  and  board  of  directors  being  John  E.  Booth,  president  ~ 
Walter  R.  Pike,  vice-president ;  Wilson  H.  Dusenberrjr 
treasurer  ;  A.  O.  Smoot,  Jr.,  secretary  ;  A.  A.  Noon, 


SNOW  BROTHERS    FURNITURE  EMPORIUM. 

superintendent.  These,  with  Amos  D.  Holdaway  and 
Thomas  Beesley,  constitute  the  directors.  The  company 
proposes  soon  to  begin  the  manufacture  of  iron.  The- 
property  owned  consists  of  large  bodies  of  iron  orer. 
situated  on  the  east  hills  of  the  Tintic  Mining  District, 
less  than  thirty  miles  from  Provo  City.  The  company's- 
possessions  extend  over  a  tract  of  land  of  some  340  acres,  and 


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contain,  one  might  almost  declare,  absolutely  inexhaustible 
-quantities  of  ore  which  is  found  in  dykes  or  deposits.  These 
;are  twenty-six  in  number,  but  their  depth  or  width  has  never 
fceen  ascertained.  For  the  purpose  of  mining,  or,  rather,  quar- 
rying the  ore,  it  is  only  necessary  to  clear  off  a  light  covering 
of  earth,  and  then  proceed  as  in  rock  quarrying,  with  powder 


MRS.  E,  HORTON'S  STORE. 

and  drill ;  and  a  single  blast  will  very  often  tear  down  a  hun- 
dred tons.  The  fronts  of  ores  thus  exposed  are,  in  many  in- 
stances, nearly  a  hundred  feet  high  from  the  floor  of  the 
workings  to  the  top  ;  but  this  is  not  the  depth  of  the  ore,  for 
•even  the  floors  of  these  quarries  are  of  solid  iron  ore  and  of 
the  purest  quality,  reaching  down  into  the  earth  to  unknown 
depths.  Wherever  shafts  have  been  sunk  for  the  purpose  of 
prospecting,  the  ore  has  improved  in  quality  with  the  depth. 


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attained.  Developments  have  been  made  in  these  deposits  by 
means  of  hundreds  of  feet  of  excavations,  tunnels  and  cuts, 
all  of  which  expose  such  quantities  of  ore  that  it  would  be  dif- 
ficult, if  not  impossible,  to  name  a  place  where  they  are  rival- 
ed in  extent  or  in  excellence  of  quality.  Under  the  conditions 
stated,  the  working  of  these  ore  bodies  is  very  light  in  ex- 
pense. The  road  to  the  mine  is  of  easy  grade ;  single  teams 
can  be  driven  to  and  from  any  part  of  them,  and  haul  4,500 
pounds  to  the  load,  while  two  railroads  are  but  a  few  miles 
•distant. 


EXCELSIOR  HOUSE. 
IRON  AND   BRASS  MANUFACTURES. 

It  should  be  stated  here  also  that  the  largest  operating 
•company  for  the  manufacture  of  machinery  and  the  working 
of  brass  and  iron  in  Provo  city,  is  the  "Provo  Foundry  and 
Machine  Company,"  of  which  an  organization  was  effected  in 
January  of  1886.  The  present  officers  are  H.  H.  Cluff ,  presi- 
dent ;  J.  E.  Booth,  secretary  ;  and  John  Devey,  superintend- 
ent. The  main  building  occupied  by  the  works  of  the  com- 
pany is  80x32  feet.  It  is  two  stories  high  and  is  built  of  adobe 
and  brick.  A  commodious  molding  room  in  the  rear  of  the 
building  is  60x40  feet,  besides  engine  rooms  and  shops  which 
are  usually  constructed  with  such  works.  The  company  has 
all  the  latest  and  most  improved  machinery — planers,  turning 


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lathes,  power  drills,  and  furnaces  necessary  for  brass  and  iron 
casting,  and  the  baking  of  cores  for  hollow  iron  works,  with 
wide  capacity,  and  facilities  which  do  not  include  those  used 
in  the  manufacture  of  machinery.  At  present,  but  a  limited 
number  of  workmen  are  employed  by  reason  of  the  heavy 
cost  of  pig  iron  now  imported  from  the  east.  This  difficulty 
will,  however,  be  overcome  at  no  distant  day,  as  the  company 
heretofore  mentioned,  which  has  in  its  possession  the  largest 
iron  beds  in  the  country,  but  a  few  miles  from  this  city,  con- 
template the  erection  of  furnaces  for  the  manufacture  of  pig 
iron  as  soon  as  possible.  The  foundry  company  has  been 


RESIDENCE   OB   JUDGE   W.    N.  DUSENBERRY. 

thoroughly  successful  in  its  work,  and  is  daily  turning  out 
machinery  and  castings  fully  equal  to  those  produced  by  east- 
ern institutions  of  a  like  kind. 

IRON  FIRE-PROOF  PAINT. 

The  manufacture  of  fire-proof  paint,  though  still  in  its  in- 
fancy, has  already  attained  considerable  importance  in  Provo. 
The  idea  of  the  manufacture  of  paint  from  iron  ore  was  first 
suggested  to  Mr.  A.  A.  Noon,  of  Provo,  by  the  large  quanti- 
.  ties  of  ore  thrown  aside  as  waste,  for  the  reason  that  it  was 
considered  not  of  the  best  quality  for  fluxing  rebellious  ores- 
at  the  smelters.  The  iron  ore  possesses  a  beautiful  red  color, 
and  a  little  over  a  year  ago  experiments  were  made  to  manu- 
facture it  into  paint  by  crushing  the  ore  to  small  particles  and 


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then  mixing  it  with  oil.  This,  when  applied  to  woodwork , 
was  found  to  give  a  bright,  rich  color ;  l?ut  the  powder  was 
not  sufficiently  fine.  Many  difficulties  were  experienced  and 
were  only  overcome  after  numberless  experiments  and  at  a 
great  outlay  by  the  Provo  Foundry  Company.  By  a  novel 
and  original  method  the  ore  was  reduced  as  fine  as  the  finest 
flour  and  the  cost  of  manufacturing  the  paint  reduced  to  a 
minimum.  As  soon  as  the  article  and  its  merits  grew  to  be 
known,  there  came  demands  from  all  parts  of  the  territory 
for  it ;  and  the  machinery  which,  when  built,  was  deemed 
equal  to  supply  the  trade  for  years,  was  found  to  be  altogether 


RESIDENCE   OF  DR.   W     R     PIKE. 

inadequate.  Other  and  larger  machinery  was  built  and,  in 
another  year,  still  greater  facilities  will  be  imperatively 
necessary.  The  manufactured  article  is  brown  or  red,  and  is 
not  only  largely  fire-proof,  but  is  most  excellent  for  its  pre- 
serving qualities  in  changeable  climates.  Wherever  it  has 
been  used,  it  is  pronounced  to  be  far  superior  to  the  eastern 
article.  The  ore  from  which  the  paint  is  manufactured  is 
from  the  deposits  owned  by  the  "  Utah  Valley  Iron  Mining 
and  Manufacturing  Company, "  in  Tintic  mining  district,  al- 
ready referred  to. 

UTAH   GRAPHITE. 

A  fine  quality  of  graphite,  or  black  lead,  is  mined  near 
Payson,   Utah  County.     The  mine  is  owned  by  the  Provo 


20  PROVO   ILLUSTRATED. 

Foundry  Company.  The  ore  is  found  on  an  incline  vein 
several  feet  in  thickness.  So  far  as  developments  have  been 
made,  the  ore  improves  in  grade  with  the  depth  attained.  At 
present,  it  is  used  only  as  foundry  dusting,  in  the  molds  into 
which  the  melted  iron  is  run  and  its  effect  is  to  produce  a 
smooth  surface  which  could  be  secured  in  no  other  way.  No 
very  extensive  experiments  have  been  made  with  this  article, 
for  the  reason  that  the  capital  of  its  owners  has  been  used  in 
other  directions  ;  but  with  proper  working  and  treatment,  it 
will  certainly  become  a  valuable  article  of  commerce  in  Utah, 
and  soon  be  among  Provo's  important  industries. 


RESIDENCE   OF  DR.  JULIUS   HAMBERG. 
WOOLEN  MILLS. 

The  largest  and  most  successful  woolen  mills  in  the  West 
are  located  at  Provo.  The  excellence  of  the  goods  manufac- 
tured grows  yearly.  Being  in  the  centre  of  an  immense  wool 
growing  district,  it  has  every  opportunity,  and  the  success  of 
this  institution  demonstrates  that  others  have  only  to  enter 
the  same  field,  display  like  energy  and  business  tact,  to  reap 
the  same  gratifying  rewards.  There  is  not  a  doubt  that 
Provo  could  support  manufactures  capable  of  working 
$2,000,000  worth  of  wool  annually.  The  extent  of  the  work- 
ings of  the  Provo  Woolen  Mills  is  evidenced  in  the  facts  here 
given,  which  were  furnished  by  its  superintendent,  Mr.  Reed 
Smoot. 


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The  Provo  Woolen  Mills  Company  own  a  full  block  of 
ground  in  the  heart  of  the  city  upon  which  the  mills  stand. 
The  mills  are  run  by  two  Turbine  wheels,  to  each  of  which 
there  is  eighteen  feet  of  water  pressure.  The  main  part  of 
the  building  is  75x145  feet  in  dimensions,  adjoining  which  is  a 
room  15x33  feet.  Running  at  right  angles  with  the  main 
building,  while  south  of  and  adjoining  the  room  just  men- 
tioned, is  still  another  two-story  structure,  33x134  feet.  The 
main  building  is  four  stories  in  height.  There  are  in  the  mills, 
wash  rooms,  bins  for  storing  the  wool,  eight  sets  of  carders, 
three  carders  to  a  set ;  grinders  to  keep  the  carders  in  trim  ; 


INTERIOR   VIEW   OF  DR.  JULIUS   HAMBERG  S  LIBRARY. 

a  spooler  and  reel,  and  a  jack  with  240  spindles  for  making 
yarn  ;  there  are  also  four  self-acting  mills,  125  feet  long,  each 
having  720  spindles ;  two  machines  for  spooling  the  thread  ; 
thirty-seven  narrow  looms  for  flannels  ;  nineteen  broad  ones 
for  cassimeres  and  blankets  ;  one  warp  dresser,  one  shawl 
fringer,  and  a  spooler  and  beaming  frame  for  arranging  the 
warp.  A  fire  pump,  with  a  capacity  of  300  gallons  per  min- 
ute, together  with  piping  through  all  the  works,  with  fire  plugs 
and  hose,  are  the  protection  which  is  afforded  against  fire. 
Moreover,  the  mill  possesses  three  fullers,  three  washers,  two 
gigs,  two  presses,  two  cutters  or  shear  frames,  and  two 
brushes,  one  with  and  one  without  steam. 

The  mills  have  manufactured  nearly  500  designs  since  the 


PROVO   ILLUSTRATED. 

day  they  began  operations,  in  the  fall  of  1873.  The  capacity 
of  the  looms  is  over  1,000  yards  per  day,  and  1,000  pounds  of 
wool  is  consumed  each  day.  Fully  5,000  pounds  of  soap  is 
used  weekly  for  cleaning  the  wool ;  and  since  last  spring  over 
$12,000  has  been  spent  in  dye  colors.  Every  year  sees  an  in- 
creased demand  in  the  goods,  this  demand,  outside  of  the 
home  consumption,  coming  from  Montana,  Washington,  Ida- 
ho and  Wyoming  Territories,  and  the  States  of  Nevada,  Colo- 
rado, Minnesota,  Michigan,  Missouri,  Louisiana,  and,  in  fact, 
from  almost  every  state  and  territory  in  the  Union. 

It  is  the  largest  woolen  mill  west  of  the  Missouri  River, 


RESIDENCE   OF   DR.    F.   H.    SIMMONS- 

and  is  incorporated  for  $500,000,  in  shares  of  $100  each.  Though 
having  a  hard  struggle  in  the  beginning,  with  excellent  man- 
agement it  is  doing  remarkable  work  to-day,  and  promises 
even  better  for  the  future. 

LUMBER    MANUFACTORY. 

Large  lumber  mills,  which  commenced  some  years  ago, 
and  which  are  situated  in  the  immediate  neighborhood  of  the 
Utah  Central  and  D.  &  G.  Ry.  depots,  supply  all  classes  of 
\voodwork  for  Provo,  and  places  not  only  in  the  county,  but 
at  great  distances.  In  fact,  it  is  almost  safe  to  say  that  not 
a  single  industry  of  a  manufacturing  character  has  been  start- 
ed that  has  not  met  with  success,  in  view  of  which  fact  it  is 


PROVO   ILLUSTRATED.  23 

surprising  that  more  extensive  work  has  not  been  under- 
taken. 

ASPHALTUM. 

About  sixteen  miles  east  of  Provo,  on  the  line  of  the  Den- 
ver &  Rio  Grande  railway,  are  situated  the  asphaltum  mines 
of  the  "North  American  Asphalt  Company."  There  are  thir- 
ty-three claims,  covering  an  area  of  nearly  640  acres.  The 
vein  is  from  eight  to  fourteen  feet  in  thickness,  and  lies  almost 
horizontally.  It  is  the  only  pure  asphaltum  in  the  United 
States.  There  are  other  small  discoveries  in  the  vicinity,  but 
none  suitable  for  paving,  nor  any  of  the  uses  to  which  as- 
phaltum is  put.  The  latest  developments  have  uncovered  de- 
posits containing  from  40  to  60  per  cent,  pure  asphaltum.  The 
company  is  a  St.  Louis  organization.  Adolphus  Busch,  the 
wealthy  St.  Louis  brewer,  and  president  of  the  Anheuser- 
Busch  Company,  is  its  president,  and  among  the  stockholders, 
officers  and  directors  are  such  men  as  Phillip  Stock,  H.  P. 
Taussig,  and  Charles  Nagle.  St.  V.  Le  Seiur,  the  discoverer  of 
the  deposits,  is  manager  and  superintendent.  The  company 
is  now  erecting  machinery,  costing  $25,000,  for  working  the 
ores.  The  building  will  be  three  stories  high  and  114  long 
by  forty  feet  wide.  It  will  be  capable  of  working  100  tons 
every  ten  hours,  and  will  manufacture  everything  possible 
from  paving  material  to  the  finest  varnish.  Already  nearly 
$20,000  has  been  expended  in  prospect  work  and  experiments. 
The  company  is  incorporated  for  $1,000, 000.00  and  will,  beyond 
doubt,  be  a  signal  success,  a  benefit  to  the  county,  of  the 
greatest  value  to  Provo  City,  and  of  material  profit  to  our 
territory. 

MANUFACTURING   POSSIBILITIES. 

It  may  be  worthy  to  note  here  some  branches  of  industry 
and  manufactories  which  promise  immediate  and  gratifying 
returns  upon  operations  being  undertaken,  and  for  which 
Provo  seems  singularly  adapted.  Among  others  are  the  fol- 
lowing : 

STOVE    WORKS. 

In  this  connection  it  may  be  said  that  there  are  no  stove 
works  west  of  the  Missouri  River.  At  least  half  of  the  cost  of 
a  stove  in  the  inter-mountain  states  and  territories  is  that  of 


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freighting.  With  iron  works  established,  and  with  the  limit- 
less iron  resources  already  mentioned,  the  manufacture  of 
stoves,  grates,  etc. ,  upon  a  large  scale,  would  be  a  source  of  im- 
mense and  immediate  profit.  The  market  afforded  is  an 
extensive  one,  comprising  Utah,  Western  Colorado,  Idaho, 
Montana,  Wyoming,  Nevada,  Arizona,  California,  Washing- 
ton Territory,  Oregon,  and  even  the  east. 

CANNERIES. 

Utah  County  is  the  largest  fruit  producing  section  between 
the  Rocky  Mountains  and  the  Coast.  Vast  quantities  are 
shipped  to  Colorado  and  surrounding  states  and  territories. 
There  is  no  doubt  that  a  fruit  canning  establishment  upon  an 
"extensive  scale  would  pay  handsomely.  Moreover,  the  canning 
of  other  agricultural  products  is  equally  possible.  The  tomato 
in  Utah  County  is  a  safe  crop.  Every  condition  seems  to  pro- 
pitiate its  growth,  and  its  size  and  rich  flavor  both  recommend 
it  as  an  article  that,  canned  properly,  would  soon  rival  and 
perhaps  overshadow  in  the  east  and  west  the  famed  Utah  po- 
tato. In  this  direction  alone  is  an  extensive  field  for  enterprise, 
and  when  we  couple  with  it  the  richness  and  size  of  the  Utah 
peach,  plum,  pear,  strawberry,  raspberry  and  grape,  it  will  be 
discovered  that  in  the  United  States  there  is  no  unutilized  in- 
dustry in  the  same  direction  that  rivals  Provo  in  the  promises 
held  out  to  enterprise  and  capital. 

PICKLE   AND   VINEGAR   WORKS. 

Pickled  cucumbers  and  onions  are  imported  into  Utah  and 
sold  in  the  Provo  market.  Better  cucumbers  and  onions  are 
raised  nowhere  in  the  world,  while  apples,  from  which  the  very 
finest  vinegar  can  be  made,  lie  rotting  on  the  ground  and  are 
fed  to  cows  and  pigs  because  a  market  is  not  offered  for  them. 

ROLLER    FLOUR    MILLS. 

Utah  County,  with  Sanpete,  Millard,  Juab,  Sevier  and  other 
counties  south,  of  which  Provo  is  the  natural  key,  produce 
wheat  in  the  greatest  abundance.  Large  roller  mills  would 
receive  the  great  surplus  of  wheat  shipped  to  other  sections, 
and  would  pay  a  handsome  profit  on  investment.  They  would 


PROVO  ILLUSTRATED.  25 

find  an  extensive  local  market,  and  a  territory  east  and  west 
into  Colorado  and  Nevada  and  far  south. 


BEEF    PACKING. 

This  county  and  others  are  filled  with  herds  of  cattle,  the 
greater  part  of  which  are  marketed  outside  of  the  territory. 
An  enterprise  of  the  kind  indicated  would  be  a  source  of  im- 
mense income  to  the  inaugurates,  and  would  find  a  virgin  field. 
That  Utah  should  have  no  beef  packing  establishment,  pro- 


HON.  A.  O.   SMOOT. 

Hon.  Abraham  O.  Smoot  is  one  01  the  representative  men  and  pioneers  ol  Utah. 
He  was  born  in  Owen  County,  Kentucky,  on  the  ijth  day  of  Februray,  1815.  He 
joined  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latterday  Saints  in  1835,  an(i  traveled  in  the 
ministry  for  about  a  year  and  then  went  to  Kirtland,  Ohio.  In  the  spring  of  1837  he 
returned  to  Kentucky  and  in  company  with  H.  G.  Sherwood  organized  a  company  of 
Saints  and  led  them  to  Far  West,  where  the  Saints  had  located  after  being  driven 
from  Jackson  County,  Mo.  He  continued  in  the  ministry  until  the  latter  part  of  1838. 
Was  taken  prisoner  at  Far  West  when  that  city  (which  was  held  by  Mormons)  fel1 
before  the  forces  of  the  milita  of  the  State  and  the  mob.  While  a  prisoner  he  married 
his  first  wife,  Martha  T.  McMeans,  on  the  nth  day  of  November,  1838. 

When  the  Mormons  were  driven  from  Missouri  in  February,  1839,  he  left  with 
them,  suffering  many  privations  in  the  inclement  weather,  and  arrived  at  Quincy,  111., 
March  8th.  He  spent  the  spring  months  there.  From  there  he  moved  to  Nauvoo 


26  PROVO   ILLUSTRATED. 

and  went  forth  again  into  the  ministry.  In  the  Exodus  of  the  Latterday  Saints  across 
the  Plains  and  Rocky  Mountains  to  Great  Salt  Lake  Valley  he  led  a  company  of  120 
wagons,  sharing  the  privations  and  hardships  of  the  dreadful  journey  with  a  forti- 
tude that  illustrated  his  character  and  determination. 

In  1851  he  went  on  a  mission  to  England  and  on  his  return  conducted  a  large 
emigration  to  Salt  Lake  City.  In  1856  he  was  elected  Mayor  of  Salt  Lake  City  by 
the  City  Council  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of  J.  M.  Grant,  the  first  Mayor 
of  that  city.  In  Feb.  1857  he  was  elected  Mayor  by  the  unanimous  vote  of  the  people  at 
their  regular  election.  By  repeated  elections  he  continued  in  office  until  February> 
1866.  His  wise  and  conservative  policy  advanced  greatly  the  progress  of  the  city. 
Declining  the  mayorship  in  1866,  he  served  twelve  yeai's  in  the  Council  branch  of 
the  Legislature.  In  February,  1868  he  went  to  Provo  and  was  immediately  elected 
mayor  of  that  city.  He  served  Provo  twelve  years  as  Mayor  without  any  remunera* 
'ion  whatever,  just  as  he  served  as  Mayor  of  Salt  Lake,  without  salary.  He  is  Presi- 
dent of  the  First  National  Bank,  Zion's  Co-Operative  Mercantile  Institution,  the 
Lumber  Company  and  the  Provo  Manufacturing  Company. 

He  has  ever  worked  to  advance  Provo  and  Utah  County,  and  has  been  the  financial 
backbone  of  its  business  institutions  since  his  connection  with  the  County,  over  which 
he  stands  as  spiritual  head,  being  President  of  the  Utah  County  Stake  of  Zion.  A 
man  of  mighty  strength  and  resources,  the  hard  experiences  he  has  undergone  and  the 
labors  of  the  past  have  made  him  a  monument  of  worth  in  the  region  which  he  has 
aided  to  reclaim  from  a  desert  and  transform  into  a  garden  dotted  with  the  homes  of 
men,  who  now  honor  and  respect  his  name. 

ducing  the  beef  it  does,  and  surrounded  by  a  beef  producing 
area  as  it  is,  is  one  of  the  surprises  that  await  the  stranger. 

SHOE    FACTORIES. 

Nearly  all  the  hides  produced  here  are  shipped  to  points 
outside,  made  into  boots  and  shoes  and  returned  to  be  sold. 
We  pay  freight  on  our  own  hides  both  ways,  that  they  may  be 
returned  in  a  shape  to  be  worn.  That  the  margin  will  not 
justify  the  manufacture,  is  absurd,  especially  in  view  of 
what  has  been  done  in  Salt  Lake  in  the  same  direction.  No 
argument  is  needed  to  show  that  the  manufacture  of  these' 
articles  within  the  territory  would  find  ready  and  profitable 
markets. 

In  addition  to  the  industries  specially  mentioned,  there  are 
many  others  that  would  justify  an  extensive  investment. 
Among  them,  without  exhausting  the  list,  we  may  mention : 

CHEESE  FACTORIES. — For  butter  is  a  drug  at  15  and  20  cents 
per  pound. 

A  TANNERY.— For  what  is  said  regarding  shoe  factories  ap- 
plies here. 

CRACKER  FACTORY. — A  market  unsurpassed  in  the  west  is 
offered  such  an  enterprise. 


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AGRICULTURE. 

HOP   CULTURE. 

Some  three  years  ago,  Major  Berry,  who  is  owner  of  a  large 
tract  of  land  on  the  bench,  just  north  of  Provo,  made  some  ex- 
periments in  the  culture  of  hops ;  and  while  considerable 
difficulty  was  experienced  in  the  beginning,  the  results  attained 
during  the  season  just  past  have  been  of  the  most  gratifying 
nature,  and  have  demonstrated,  beyond  the  peradventure  of  a 
doubt,  that  this  very  important  and  desirable  industry  is  thor- 


HON.  W.  H.  DUSENBKRRY. 

The  present  Mayor  of  Provo,  Wilson  H.  Dusen berry,  is  one  of  the  leading  men  ot 
Utah  county,  and  is  to-day,  perhaps,  one  ofProvo's  most  useful  and  generally  uti- 
lized citizens.  He  was  born  April  7th,  1841,  at  Perry,  Pike  county,  111.  He  is  the 
younger  brother  of  Warren  N.  Dusenberry,  Judge  of  Utah  county.  Mayor  Dusenberry 
•was  reared  in  his  native  State.  In  1860,  with  his  father's  family,  he  went  to  California, 
visiting  Provo  on  the  outward  trip.  After  being  in  California  for  two  years,  the  broth- 
ers returned  to  Provo,  where,  out  of  respect  to  their  mother's  wishes,  they  remained 
and  became  identified  with  the  introduction  of  a  systematic  and  higher  edu- 
cation in  that  city,  out  of  which  has  grown  the  present  advanced  state  of  educational 
institutions  in  Utah.  He  was  County  Superintendent  of  schools  from  1874  to  1880. 
Wilson  Dusenberry  began  his  political  record  in  1872,  when  he  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Provo  City  Council,  with  which  he  has  been  associated  ever  since, 


28  PROVO   ILLUSTRATED. 

(excepting  for  a  part  of  1874-5)  as  Councilor,  Alderman  and  Mayor.  He  was  County 
Clerk  from  1875  to  l%%3.  ^n  !&79  Mayor  Dusenberry  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
House  branch  of  the  Utah  Legislative  Assembly.  In  the  same  capacity  he  served  in 
1882  and  1884,  being  a  member  for  three  consecutive  terms.  He  was  the  most  prom- 
inent member  in  that  body  in  securing  the  adoption  of  the  parliamentary  rules  which 
still  obtain.  In  1882  he  was  chairman  ot  the  House  Committee  on  education  and  in  the 
Territorial  Convention  that  nominated  Hon.  Jno.  T.  Caine  as  delegate 'to  Congress, 
he  was  made  President.  In  1864  Mayor  Dusenberry  married  his  cousin,  Harriet  V. 
Coray,  the  niece  of  the  late  Delegate,  Wm.  H.  Hooper.  She  died,  leaving  two  child- 
dren,  in  1872.  In  1874  he  married  Margaret  T.  Smoot,  daughter  of  Hon.  A.  O.  Smoot^ 
of  Provo.  He  is  and  has  been  since  its  inception  cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Provo.  Mayor  Dusenberry  is  quiet  and  undemonstrative,  clear  sighted,  possessed  of 
marked  political  ability  and  business  sagacity,  and,  is  one  of  those  men  whose 
influence  has  been  felt  throughout  the  entire  Territory. 

oughly  practicable  in  this  locality.  It  is  a  new  undertaking  in 
Utah;  and  because  the  soil  and  locality  seemed  peculiarly 
adapted  to  the  culture  of  hops,  Mr.  Berry  was  induced  to  make 
the  experiment.  On  this  bench,  also,  there  is  good  reason  to 
believe  it  is  the  purpose  of  eastern  capitalists  to  establish  large 
fish  ponds,  as  the  water  from  artesian  wells  seem  specially 
suited  to  this  purpose. 

GROUND   PRODUCTS. 

Moreover,  all  the  land  on  this  bench  enjoys  the  breezes 
which  forever  come  down  Provo  Canon ;  and  the  value  of  these 
winds  to  fruit-growers  is  inestimable.  The  frosts  of  early 
spring,  in  many  quarters,  destroy  the  fruit  crops  by  nipping 
the  tender  buds ;  but  wherever  there  is  an  unfailing  breeze, 
the  frost  is  carried  about  and,  not  being  permitted  to  settle  on 
the  buds  which  may  be  shooting  out,  they  are  protected  and  the 
season's  fruit  crop  is  assured. 

The  soil,  also,  is  a  fine  sandy  loam;  and  because  of  its 
natural  warmth  is  well  suited  to  the  culture  of  grapes.  The 
canon  breeze  is  also  of  great  benefit  in  this  respect ;  and  the 
gentle  slope  of  the  land  being  to  the  west,  it  enjoys  the  warmth 
of  the  afternoon's  sun.  The  result  is,  not  only  fruit  of  the  most 
luscious  description,  grapes  large  and  of  rich  flavor,  but  also 
vegetables  that  are  of  rapid  growth  and  of  early  maturity, 
The  soil  bears  all  the  lighter  cereals  and  vegetables.  Potatoes 
and  onions  are  particularly  famous,  and  hundreds  of  car  loads 
of  the  first  named  are  exported  annually,  the  demand  coming 
from  parts  as  far  distant  as  Cincinnati  and  New  Orleans. 


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Celery,  asparagus,  and  garden  vegetables  of  all  kinds  are  cul- 
tivated and  grown  in  great  quantities.  Small  fruits  abound, 
and  the  grape,  if  repetition  may  be  forgiven,  is  of  as  fine  flavor 
as  the  celebrated  California  product.  It  is  dark  and  rich  in 
color,  large  in  size  and  delicious  in  quality,  and  is  grown  ex- 
tensively throughout  the  valley.  Apples,  plums,  and  apricots 
are  raised  in  large  quantities.  The  climate  and  soil  are  par- 
ticularly favorable  to  the  culture  of  peaches,  and  nowhere  in 
the  world  are  finer  ones  raised  than  in  Utah.  They  are  uni- 
versally conceded  to  be  superior  in  every  respect  to  the  peaches 


HON.  H.    H.  CLUFF. 

Harvey  Harris  Cluff,  son  of  David  and  Elizabeth  Hall  Cluft,  was  born  January 
9th,  1836,  in  Kirtland,  Ohio,  being  the  seventh  of  a  family  of  twelve,  whose  ancestors 
came  to  America  shortly  after  the  landing  of  the  Pilgrims  and  settled  in  the  "New 
England"  States,  some  of  whom  served  as  Legislators,  officers  and  soldiers  during  the 
struggle  for  independence,  his  father  being  in  the  war  of  1812. 

David  Cluff  became  a  convert  to  the  doctrines  taught  by  Joseph  Smith  and 
moved  to  Springfield,  thence  to  Nauvoo,  where  the  family  remained  until  the  Exodus 
in  1846,  when  they  located  at  Mount  Pisgah,  thence  they  went  to  Musquito  Creek, 
Iowa,  where  they  remained  until  1850,  at  which  time  they  crossed  the  Plains  to  Salt 
Lake  and  located  in  Provo  in  October  of  the  same  year  and  joined  in  completing  the 
"log-fort"  and  school  house.  In  the  spring  and  summer  Mr.  Cluff  tended  his  father's 
flocks  along  the  base  of  the  Wasatch  mountains,  improving  every  opportunity  of  his 


30  PROVO   ILLUSTRATED. 

shepherd  lite  by  studying  the  Bible,  Book  of  Mormon  and  Doctrine  and  Covenants. 
In  the  winter  of  1854-5  he  lived  with  his  brother  David,  at  Parowan,  and  in  1856  vol- 
unteered, on  the  6th  of  October,  to  a  call  of  President  Brigham  Young,  to  aid  the 
late  Hand-Cart  companies  across  the  Plains.  The  following  day  he  started  from  Salt 
Lake  City  in  company  with  40  men  and  22  mule-teams  loaded  with  provisions  and 
clothing.  It  was  on  the  Sweetwater,  near  the  South  Pass,  where  he  aided  in  saving 
two  men  from  freezing  to  death.  The  last  of  that  season's  emigration  was  found  at 
the  upper  crossing  of  the  Platt.  Heavy  snow  storms  caused  delays  at  Devil's  Gate, 
preventing  their  arrival  in  Salt  Lake  until  the  middle  of  December.  The  experience 
of  this  trip  is  beyond  description.  On  the  24th  of  January,  1857,  Mr.  Cluff  and  Mar- 
garet Ann  Foster  were  united  in  marriage,  to  whom  four  children  were  born,  all  dying: 
while  very  young.  He  was  elected  City  Councilor  in  1859  anc^  ^n  the  following  yeary 
with  three  brothers,  built  a  large  furniture  factory  and  music  hall.  In  1862  he  was 
elected  a  City  Councilor  and  re-elected  in  1864,  serving  until  1865,  when  he  went  to- 
Europe  as  a  missionary,  laboring  six  months  in  England  and  two  years  and  a  half  in 
Scotland  as  President  of  the  Glasgow  Conference,  and  the  last  year  over  the  Scottish 
District,  returning  home  in  1868  leading  a  company  of  400  Saints.  One  year  after- 
wards he  went  to  the  Sandwich  Islands  accompanied  by  his  wife.  He  returned  thence  in 
1874.  He  obtained  a  clerkship  in  the  Provo  Co-Operative  for  three  months,  served  as 
manager  of  the  Utah  County  Times  Publishing  Co.  two  months,  and  in  1875,  by  aP~ 
pointment,  commenced  the  duties  of  Assessor  and  Collector  of  Utah  County.  He  con- 
tinued in  that  office  until  1879.  In  August,  1875,  he  was  ordained  by  President 
Brigham  Young,  Bishop  over  the  Fourth  Ward  Provo.  He  was  again  elected  City 
Councilor  in  1876,  and  in  1877  he  was  called  into  the  quorum  of  the  Presidency  of  the 
Utah  Stake  of  Zion  with  A.  O.  Smoot  and  D.  John.  In  1879  he  was  called  to  preside 
over  the  mission  on  the  Sandwich  Islands,  and  went,  accompanied  by  his  wife.  There 
he  erected  a  sugar  mill  at  a  cost  of  $24,000,  and  commenced  a  meeting  house  35x65, 
returning  home  in  1882.  For  several  years  after  his  return  he  superintended  the  Provo- 
Lumber  Manufacturing  and  Building  Company  and  has  been  superintendent  of  the 
erection  of  Utah  Stake  Tabernacle  from  its  beginning.  On  the  2oth  of  September,  1883, 
his  wife  died  in  Provo  City.  In  the  beginning  of  1884  he  was  elected  President  of  the 
Provo  Theatre  Company  and  in  1886  made  Director  of  the  first  National  Bank  of  Provo. 
He  has  yet  many  useful  years  before  him. 

of  either  Delaware  or  California.  The  trees  here  are  of  much 
hardier  growth  and  less  subject  to  the  blasting  influences  of 
the  frosts  than  elsewhere. 

THE  GARDEN  CITY. 

Provo  is  very  properly  designated  the  "Garden  City."  It 
is  the  fashion  in  these  days  to  have  a  high  sounding  sub-title 
or  name  for  every  city  almost  in  the  country.  In  most  cases- 
these  names  have  but  little,  if  not  a  painfully  ridiculous  sig- 
nification, and  are  mostly  the  result  or^ish  of  the  over-confi- 
dent and  ambitious  citizen.  Provo,  however,  is  justly  entitled 
to  its  second  name.  It  is  deservedly  called  the  "Garden  City  " 


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of  Utah,  and  the  valley,  in  which  it  lies  like  a  gem,  might 
rightly  be  termed  the  garden  valley  of  the  west.  The  soil  is 
rich,  and  the  climate  of  the  most  favorable  kind  for  the  pro- 
duction of  that  which  pleases  equally  the  mind,  the  eye,  and 
the  palate.  It  is  the  home  of  the  vegetarian,  where  this  phi- 
losophic individual  could  live  and  feast  the  year  round,  and  the 
spot  of  all  others  to  be  favored  of  an  epicure. 

SCHOOLS  AND   CHURCHES. 

The  city  is  laid  out  with  wide,  handsome  streets,  at  right 


JUDGE   W.   N.    DDSENBEKRY. 

Warren  Newton  Dusenberry  was  born  in  Whitehaven,  Luzerne  County,  Pennsyl- 
vania, November  ist,  1836.  His  mother's  parents  were  prominent  people  in  that  part 
of  the  state.  Mahlon  Dusenberry,  the  father,  moved  from  New  Jersey  to  Pennsylvania 
where  he  married'Aurilla  Coray,  the  mother.  The  Dusenberrys  are  of  Holland  descent, 
but  on  both  sides  the  families  are  ol  long  American  ancestry.  The  mother  was  a 
great  granddaughter  of  Abigail  Green,  sister  of  General  Nathaniel  Green,  one  of  the 
most  noted  commanding  generals  of  the  American  Revolution.  Judge  Dusenberry  is 
the  third  child  in  a  family  of  nine  children. 

In  1840  his  family,  with  his  grandfather  Coray's  family,  emigrated  to  Pike  county 
Illinois.  In  1860  they  crossed  the  Plains  going  to  California  with  ox  and  horse  teams. 
On  this  trying  and  hazardous  journey  the  principal  burdens  rested  upon  Warren  N., 
who  was  then  twenty-four  years  of  age.  Late  in  the  fall  of  1862  they  returned  to 


32  PROVO  ILLUSTRATED. 

Utah  and  located  at  Provo,  where  with  his  brother  Wilson  H.,  he  soon  became  the 
leading  educator  at  least  of  Utah  County.  He  and  his  brother  are  not  only  practi- 
cally the  founders  of  the  school  system  in  Provo,  but  also  are  to  be  credited  largely 
with  the  founding  of  the  Brigham  Young  Academy  there.  He  followed  the  vocation 
of  teaching  most  of  the  time  until  1874,  when  he  was  elected  by  the  Legislative  As- 
sembly Probate  Judge  of  Utah  County — an  office  he  still  holds.  During  the  time 
since  1874  Judge  Dusenberry  has  been  a  practitioner  at  the  bar  of  the  District  Courts  of 
this  territory  as  well  as  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  besides  holding  nu- 
merous other  positions  of  trust  and  honor.  Prominent  among  these,  and  one  which 
will  ever  be  a  monument  of  honor  to  his  name,  is  his  connection  with  the  Territorial 
Insane  Asylum.  His  sympathetic  sentiments  for  the  distress  of  his  fellows  impelled  the 
drafting  of  the  bill  which  became  the  law  creating  this  institution.  To  him  more  than 
any  one  has  been  accredited  its  location  at  Provo  and  its  present  advanced  state.  For 
more  than  five  years  he  has  been  President  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  and  most  of  the 
time  chairman  of  the  executive  and  building  committees.  With  Dr.  Pike  he  made  a 
tour  of  inspection  among  the  asylums  of  the  United  States  for  the  information  which 
has  helped  to  place  Utah's  asylum  on  a  much  higher  plane  than  any  similar  institu- 
tion in  our  inter-mountain  region.  Judge  Dusenberry  is  a  conservative  man  and  has 
exercised  great  influence  in  Utah  County  in  bringing  it  to  the  front  and  giving  it  the 
prestige  it  now  enjoys. 

angles  to  each  other,  and  attractive  public  buildings  are  not 
wanting.  Schools  were  among  the  first  structures  that  were 
thought  of  by  the  early  settlers,  and  from  the  first  adobe  room 
built,  the  system  has  grown  until  now,  Provo  has  a  complete 
and  most  excellent  school  system.  In  regard  to  these  advant- 
ages, the  Garden  City  perhaps  leads  the  territory ;  and  with 
two  academies,  and  its  public  schools,  will  compare  most 
favorably  with  the  east.  Churches  are  not  lacking,  and  the 
utmost  freedom  of  worship,  thought  and  action  prevail.  All 
the  blessings  attendant  upon  civilization  elsewhere  are  found 
in  Provo ;  and  one  can  live  there  surrounded  with  the  same 
culture  and  refinement  as  in  older  and  wealthier  cities  east  or 
west. 

It  is  conceded  that  Provo  has  the  best  district  school  house 
in  the  territory,  recently  erected  at  a  cost  of  $20,000.  The  foun- 
dation is  also  laid  for  the  Brigham  Young  Academy,  the  cost 
of  which,  when  completed,  will  not  be  less  than  $75,000.  The 
new  Northwest  Educational  Association  has  also  erected  a  fine 
building  here,  known  as  the  Proctor  Academy,  at  a  cost  of 
$8,000.  There  are  a  number  of  other  school  houses,  new  and 
commodious,  which  would  swell  largely  the  aggregate  amount 
this  thriving  city  has  put  into  institutions  for  the  education  of 
its  young. 


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One  of  the  finest  buildings  in  the  territory  is  the  Tabernacle 
in  Provo.  It  has  already  cost  close  on  $75,000,  and  when  all 
•work  is  done  on  it,  will  not  run  under  $100,000.  Besides  this 
Ihere  are  a  number  of  lesser  church  buildings,  as  well  as  Pres- 
byterian, Methodist  and  other  edifices  for  the  worship  of  God, 
"which  give  the  city  a  metropolitan  air,  and  offer  a  variety  of 
forms  of  worship  for  those  who  are  not  particular  where  the 
-Sabbath  is  observed. 


HON.  S.  R.  THURMAN. 

S.  R.  Thurraan  was  born  May  6,  1852,  in  La  Rue  County,  Kentucky;  received  an 
:acad«nic  education;  moved  to  Utah  in  1870,  and  at  once  commenced  teaching  school 
at  Lehi  City,  Utah  County,  which  vocation  he  followed  almost  exclusively  for  eight 
years.  He  then  began  the  practice  of  law,  and  went  to  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.1,  1879,  at- 
tending the  law  lectures  for  several  months  at  that  place.  • 

He  is  associated  in  his  profession  with  Mr.  George  Sutherland,  a  firm  which, 
vithout  doubt,  has  the  largest  and  best  practice  of  any  south  of  Salt  Lake  City.  Mr. 
"Thurman  commenced  official  life  at  the  early  age  of  twenty-two.  From  that  period 
to  the  time  of  his  going  to  Ann  Arbor  he  was  an  Alderman  and  member  of  the  City 
Council  of  Lehi  City,  and  in  1882  was  elected  Mayor  of  that  place,  an  office  he  re- 
signed when  moving  to  Provo  in  November  of  the  same  year.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  Utah  Legislature  in  1882,  being  the  youngest 
anember  of  that  body,  and  was  recognized  as  one  of  its  ablest  members.  He  was  re- 


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turned  in  1884,  1886,  and  is  a  member  of  the  present  Legislature,  where  his  influence- 
is  second  to  none.  In  1882,  together  with  Hon.  John  T,  Caine,  Hon.  P.  H.  Emerson, 
and  Governor  Arthur  L.  Thomas,  he  was  appointed  to  revise  and  codify  the  laws  oi 
Utah.  He  is  at  present,  and  has  been  for  some  years,  County  Attorney  for  Utah 
County  and  Attorney  for  Provo  City. 

Politically  he  is  identified  with  the  history  of  the  Territory.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Constitutional  convention  ot  1882,  and  also  of  the  late  Constitutional  Convention 
which  framed  the  anti-polygamy  constitution.  He  was  chairman  of  the  committee 
which  drafted  the  first  declaration  of  principles  or  platform  of  the  People's  Party,  and 
delivered  the  first  political  speech  in  the  first  political  campaign  of  that  party  in  1882. 
Of  his  National  politics,  he  is  a  pronounced  Democrat.  Mr.  Thurman  is  a  man  of 
growing  capacity  and  is  one  of  Utah's  prominent  lawmakers  and  politicians. 

PUBLIC   BUILDINGS. 

The  Territorial  Insane  Asylum  is  located  at  Provo.  After 
going  through  several  counties  in  the  territory  seeking  for  an 
eligible  site  for  the  building,  the  committee,  having  the  selec- 
tion under  control,  chose  the  site  now  adorned  by  this  building. 
A  portion  of  the  structure,  the  south  wing,  is  completed,  at  a 
cost  of  $120,000.  It  is  supplied  with  all  the  modern  and  most 
approved  appliances,  is  surrounded  by  a  beautiful  tract  of  land 
for  farming,  is  built  right  under  the  overhanging  Wasatch 
peaks,  and  commands  a  glorious  view  almost  of  the  whole 
valley  and  of  the  lake  on  the  west.  When  completed  it  will 
cost  not  less  than  half  a  million  dollars. 

The  County  Court  House  and  City  Hall,  a  joint  building, 
cost  $30,000,  and  occupies  a  valuable  site.  Now  in  course  of 
erection  and  almost  completed,  is  a  new  County  Jail,  built 
after  the  most  modern  architecture,  with  steel  cells  and  a 
pleasant  and  attractive  exterior,  which  will  cost  $15,000  to 
$18,000. 

Perhaps  no  other  city  of  double  its  population  in  the  United 
States  has  so  fine  a  building  of  amusement  as  Provo.  The 
Provo  Opera  House  has  a  seating  capacity  of  900,  and  cost  over 
$30,000.  Like  all  other  public  institutions  in  Provo,  everything- 
is  new  and  contains  all  the  modern  advantages  in  the  line  for 
which  it  was  erected.  It  may  be  unnecessary  to  state  that  a 
city  with  such  a  building  has  a  good  record  among  traveling- 
theatrical  companies  for  the  number  of  its  amusement-loving- 
inhabitants. 

There  are  several  hotels  in  the  city  which,  while  not  of  a 
pretentious  nature,  nevertheless  afford  ample  accommodations^ 
and  all  supply  a  most  excellent  table. 


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The  First  National  Bank  of  Provo  occupies  a  building  that 
cost  over  $20,000.  The  Bank  was  organized  and  began  opera- 
tions in  1882,  with  a  capital  stock  of  $50,000.  It  has  paid  10 
per  cent,  dividends  from  the  beginning,  and  has  a  reserve  fund 
aggregating  11  per  cent,  of  the  capital.  Its  stock  is  to-day 
worth  1.10.  The  above  facts  are  based  upon  the  institution's 
report  of  October  5th  last,  in  which  also  it  was  shown  that 
nearly  $3,000  undivided  profits  were  on  hand,  in  addition  to 
the  reserve  fund  of  $5,000.  The  officers  of  the  Bank  are  :  A. 


DR.  W.  B.  PIKE. 

Walter  R.  Pike,  M.  D.,  was  born  in  Norfolk  county,  England,  on  the  8th  of 
June,  1848.  He  came  to  the  United  States  alone  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  having 
previously  spent  some  time  at  sea.  After  traveling  for  three  years  in  the  western 
country  and  putting  up  with  the  inconveniences  and  roughness  peculiar  to  western 
life  in  earlier  days,  he  settled  down  to  the  study  of  medicine  in  Salt  Lake  City,  being 
then  nineteen  years  of  age  Under  Dr.  J.  S.  Ormsby  he  studied  for  two  years;  then, 
he  entered  the  drug  business,  pursuing  that  vocation  for  over  five  years  and  until  he 
obtained  a  most  thorough  knowledge  of  drugs  and  medicines.  He  then  went  east  in 
1876  and  graduated  from  the  medical  department  of  the  University  of  Vermont  in 
1877,  From  here  he  went  to  New  York  City,  entering  the  University  of  New  York, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1878,  taking  the  two  degrees  in  as  many  years.  He  then 
returned  to  Utah  and  located  in  Provo,  where  he  began  the  practice  of  medicine  and 


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has  remained  there  continuously  ever  since,  excepting  one  year'of  practice  in  Salt 
Lake  City.  He  preferred  the  former  place,  however,  and  returned  there,  where  his 
practice  and  influence  have  grown  together.  He  has  held  for  several  years  the  posi- 
tion of  county  and  city  Quarantine  physician,  but  resigned  both  upon  being  appointed 
Medical  Superintendent  of  the  Territorial  Insane  Asylum,  which  is  located  at  Provo 
and  which  was  opened  in  1885.  The  Doctor  is  advanced  and  yet  conservative  in  his 
ideas,  is  of  a  very  progressive  turn  and  has  won  a  wide  reputation  and  been  more 
than  ordinarily  successful. 

O.  Smoot,  president ;  Wilson  H.  Dusenberry,  cashier ;  with  a 
directory  of  strong  and  trustworthy  men.  There  is  ample  room 
and  a  most  excellent  opening  here  for  at  least  one  other  bank. 
One  hundred  thousand  dollars  to  $150,000  could  be  safely  in- 
vested in  this  direction. 

Being  so  centrally  located,  with  so  many  advantages,  there 
is  one  thing  that  is  surprising  to  the  inquirer  and  the  business 
men — the  absence  of  jobbing  houses  equal  to  the  opportunities 
the  city  affords.  One  large  wholesale  house,  which  must  have 
cost  all  of  $30,000.  stands  near  the  depots  of  the  two  railroads. 
The  signs  are  that  Provo  will  soon  occupy  the  position  as  a 
jobbing  centre,  which  its  geographical  situation  undoubtedly 
•warrants.  Provo's  legitimate  market  is  the  whole  of  the 
southern,  eastern  and  western  parts  of  Utah  and  of  Western 
Colorado — all  mining  and  growing  agricultural  areas. 

CITY  OFFICERS,    NEWSPAPERS,    CHAMBER  OF   COMMERCE. 

Provo  is  a  chartered  city,  and  has  been  one  for  many  years. 
Its  present  officers  are :  Mayor,  Wilson  H.  Dusenberry ;  Al- 
dermen, A.  O.  Smoot,  Jr.,  Walter  Scott,  W.  H.  Brown,  J.  E. 
Booth;  Councilors,  Roger  Farrer,  Charles  D.  Glazier,  Evan 
Wride,  Win.  McCullough,  David  Holdaway,  John  M.  Hold- 
away,  Joseph  T.  McEwan  and  James  A.  Bean. 

The  "Utah  Enquirer"  is  the  oldest  paper  in  the  county. 
It  is  a  semi-weekly  ;  the  "American"  is  of  recent  birth  and 
issued  weekly.  Besides  these,  which  are  newspapers,  are  the 
"Utah  Industrialist,"  a  monthly  magazine,  and  the  "Home 
Circle,"  a  literary  periodical. 

The  Chamber  of  Commerce,  under  whose  direction  this 
pamphlet  is  published ,  was  organized  in  September  last.  To-day 
it  has  a  membership  of  sixty,  and  is  second  to  none  in  the  ter- 
ritory in  the  effectiveness  of  its  work,  in  the  unity  of  its 
members  and  in  the  determination  with  which  it  pushes  to 


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completion  any  policy  that  may  be  adopted  as  the  sense  of  the 
Chamber.  Its  officers  are  :  Wilson  H.  Dusenberry,  president ; 
James  Dunn,  first  vice-president;  A.  A.  Noon,  second  vice- 
president  ;  who,  with  S.  S.  Jones,  Reed  Smoot.  W.  C.  A.  Smoot, 
Jr.,  F.  H.  Simmons,  Richard  Brereton,  W.  R.  H.  Paxman  and 
Joseph  A.  Harris,  constitute  the  directory.  George  Sutherland 
is  secretary,  with  Ed  L.  Jones,  treasurer. 


DAVID  JOHN. 

David  John  was  born  at  Little  New  Caslle,  Pembrokeshire,  South  Wales,  January 
29t"h,  1833.  He  was  the  son  of  Daniel  John  and  Mary  Williams.  His  father  was  an  in- 
fluential farmer.  His  parents  were  members  of  the  Baptist  church,  many  of  his  family 
being  ministers  of  that  denomination.  It  was  designed  by  the  family  that  John  also 
should  be  educated  for  the  ministry ;  and  for  this  purpose  he  spent  four  years  in  the  Bap- 
tist College,  Haverford,  West  South  Wales.  He  became  identified  with  the  Church  of 
Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints  on  the  6th  of  February,  1856,  and  is  still  a  mem- 
ber of  that  body.  On  the  6th  of  April,  1861,  he  sailed  in  the  ship  Manchester ;  from 
Liverpool  to  New  York,  arriving  m  Salt  Lake  City  in  September  of  the  same  year, 
whence  he  went  direct  to  Provo,  and  has  since  resided  there.  He  has  spent  years  in  the 
ministry  of  his  church,  abroad  and  at  home.  He  has  combined  business  with  religion, 
tor  he  has  been  a  school  teacher  and  a  business  man  in  the  Provo  Co-Operative  Institu- 
tion; in  the  Provo  Woolen  Factory,  and  in  the  Lumber  Company,  which  originated 
with  the  firm  of  Smoot  &  Johns.  He  left  the  factory  to  fulfill  the  duties  assigned  him 
in  the  church.  He  served  as  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Provo  district  schools  for  fifteen 


38  PROVO  ILLUSTRATED. 

years,  and  for  as  many  years  he  has  served  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
of  the  Provo  Co-Operative  Institution.  He  is  now  in  the  prime  of  life,  and  gives 
promise  of  still  being  of  much  use  to  his  church  and  his  country. 

PROPERTY  VALUES  AND  TAXATION. 

The  city  property  is  assessed  at  $721,863,  which  is  about 
one-fourth  of  the  fair  cash  valuation.  On  this  amount  for  city 
purposes,  six  mills  on  the  dollar  are  assessed,  making  the  tax, 
on  an  actual  cash  valuation,  only  one  and  one-half  mills  on  the 
dollar.  The  county  taxable  property  is  placed  at  $3,386,000, 
which  is  about  one-third  of  its  cash  value.  The  territorial, 
school,  and  county  tax  on  the  assessed  valuation,  amounts,  in 
all,  to  eleven  mills  on  the  dollar,  which  brings  the  actual  tax 
down  to  three  and  two-thirds  mills  on  the  dollar.  The  munici- 
pal, county,  school,  and  territorial  taxes,  the  total  on  an  actual 
cash  valuation,  aggregates  therefore,  but  five  and  one-sixth 
mills  on  the  dollar.  On  this  showing  there  need  be  said  no 
words  of  commendation.  It  tells  its  own  tale. 

RAILROADS. 

Both  the  Utah  Central  and  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande 
Western  Railways  run  through  Provo  City.  The  former  is  run 
in  connection  with  the  Union  Pacific,  and  is  practically  one  of 
its  branch  lines.  It  extends  some  200  miles  south  of  Provo, 
and  makes  this  city  the  supply  quarter,  largely,  for  Southern 
Utah.  From  the  south,  all  wool  passes  through  Provo  to  local 
points,  before  being  exported  east,  and  a  vast  amount  of  it 
finds  a  home  market  at  the  Provo  Woolen  Mills  already  re- 
ferred to.  Provo  is  the  junction  of  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande 
Western  Railway  with  the  Utah  Central.  It  is  also  the  nearest 
city  of  any  importance  to  the  boundless  coal  fields,  situated 
some  sixty  miles  distant,  near  the  main  line  of  the  Denver  & 
Rio  Grande  Railway,  in  what  is  known  as  "Pleasant  Valley." 

There  is  absolutely  no  limit  to  the  coal  supply  ;  and  with  this 
considered,  in  connection  with  the  colossal  iron  deposits  here- 
tofore mentioned,  it  gives  a  solid  character  and  reliability  to 
the  prediction  already  made,  that  Provo  is  destined  to  become 
the  seat  of  immense  manufactures ;  especially  for  the  produc- 
tion of  crude  iron,  if  nothing  be  said  of  the  numerous  branches 
that  necessarily  follow  upon  the  production  of  pig  iron. 


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It  is  important  to  note  in  this  connection  that  south  of 
known  as  the  "Weber  Pass,"  through  which  the  Union 
Pacific  now  runs,  there  is  no  really  practicable  route  for  a  new 
railroad  (and  the  number  that  are  now  rapidly  rushing  to  Utah 
from  the  east  may  not  be  counted  on  the  fingers  of  one's  hand), 
until  Provo  Canon  is  reached.  This  gives  foundation  to  the 
prediction  that  several  through  lines  from  the  east  are  destined 
to  come  to  Provo ;  and,  as  other  cities  of  magnitude  east  of 
Provo  are  impossible,  because  of  the  unfavorable  conditions  of 


S.  S  JONES. 


Samuel  Stephen  Jones,  one  of  the  founders  of  Utah  County  commerce,  (and  at 
the  present  time  a  prominent  merchant  of  Provo  City),  was  born  at  the  Angel  Inn, , 
Brentford,  England,  in  February,  1837. 

Mr.  Jones  obtained  his  business  experience  with  the  firm  of  Bardsley  &  Son,  Tea 
Merchants,  Tottenham  Court  Road.  London,  which  was  also  a  post  and  money  order 
office.  He  came  to  Utah  with  the  never  to  be  forgotten  Hand-cart  Company,  in  1856. 
After  passing  through  for  several  years  the  harsh  vicissitudes  of  early  western  life,  he 
engaged  in  business  with  Messrs.  Birch  &  Stubbs,  of  Provo  City.  Later  he  embarked 
in  the  mercantile  business  himself.  He  took  a  leading  part  in  establishing  the  Co- 
Operative  movement  in  Provo,  and  acted  as  superintendent  of  the  Provo  Co-Operative 
Institution  for  several  years.  Mr.  Jones'  present  business  is  second  only  in  Provo 


40  PROVO   ILLUSTRATED. 

City  to  the  Co-Operative  institution.  Besides  his  store  at  Provo,  he  has  a  brancf* 
establishment  at  Price,  Emery  Co.,  and  conducts  also  the  business  of  charcoal  burn- 
ing at  his  kilns  in  Spanish  Fork  Canyon  from  which  the  Germania  &  Hanauer  Smel- 
ters, in  Salt  Lake  Valley  are  supplied. 

Of  his  public  service  it  may  be  noted  that  he  was  Adjutant  in  the  Provo  militia;, 
assisted  in  raising  supplies  and  forwarding  troops  to  San  Pete  and  Sevier  during  the 
Indian  campaign  of  1862,  and  accompanied  Col.  Nuttall  with  a  company  of  men  to- 
the  Sevier.  He  has  been  in  the  City  Council  several  terms  as  Councilor  and  Alderman. 
In  fine,  S.  S.  Jones  for  many  years  has  been  in  various  spheres  a  representative  man- 
in  the  Provo  commonwealth,  and  a  pillar  of  its  commercial  fabric,  as  he  is  to-day. 

the  country  lying  there,  it  necessarily  follows  that,  the  im- 
portance of  Provo  as  a  railroad  town  and  a  manufacturing 
centre  is  necessarily  and  incalculably  enhanced. 


ATTRACTIONS. 

At  the  base  of  the  Wasatch  range  of  mountains,  and  at  a> 
point  where  its  peaks  rise  abruptly,  reaching  upward  until 
their  tops  seem  almost  to  pierce  the  sky,  lies  the  manufacturing 
centre  of  the  coming  State  of  Utah.  It  is  about  four  miles- 
south  of  a  mountain  canon  of  the  same  name  as  that  of  the 
city.  Through  this  canon  the  Timpanogas  River,  or  the  river 
of  "Stony  Waters,"  'as  the  Indians  graphically  name  itr 
dashes  its  course,  until,  in  spreading  through  numerous  artifi- 
cial arteries  and  veins,  it  pours  upon  the  teeming  acres  that 
lie  between  the  mountains  and  the  pleasant  bosom  of  Utah 
Lake.  The  high  embankment  north  of  the  city  forces  the  river 
to  sweep  in  a  semi-circle  to  the  south  and  west.  The  river  is 
thus  thrown  above  the  city,  and  gives  ample  supply  for  all  the- 
purposes  of  manufacture  and  for  irrigation.  Along  its  course- 
have  grown  up  beautiful  groves,  interspersed  with  fruitful 
fields  and  pleasant  meadows.  In  and  around  there  are  lovely 
and  quiet  drives  and  lanes,  with  wild  roses,  flowers  and  shrubs- 
growing  in  rich  profusion. 

The  Utah  Lake  is  on  the  west  of  the  city.  It  is  the  largest 
fresh  water  body  in  the  west,  and  can  be  reached  in  a  twenty 
minutes'  drive.  The  view  from  any  point — north,  south,  or 
east — only  lends  fresh  charm  i;o  the  effective  scene.  Into  the- 
bosom  of  the  lake  pour  the  waters  of  the  American,  Timpano- 
gas,  and  Spanish  Fork  Rivers,  and  its  outlet  is  in  the  Great 
Salt  Lake,  through  the  Jordan  River.  The  city,  during  the 
summer,  is  clothed  in  a  complete  verdure  of  fruit,  ornamental 


PROVO   ILLUSTRATED. 


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and  shade  trees.  The  lay  of  the  city,  with  its  broad  and  level 
streets,  as  seen  from  the  mountains,  afford  a  soft  and  pleasing 
vista.  Through  the  trees  the  main  buildings  of  the  city  can 
be  seen,  and  off  to  the  west  slopes  a  stretch  of  fruitful  farming 
land  with  its  contrast,  in  regularly  laid  out  fields  of  yellow  and 
of  green.  The  lake  spreads  out  from  this  latter  point,  and  the 
opposite  range  of  mountains  on  the  western  side  of  the  valley, 
breaks  the  view,  forming  a  fitting  background  for  a  scene  of 
such  pastoral  loveliness.  The  mountains  are  famous  for  their 


A.  A.  NOON. 


U3RARY 


The  lite  of  A.  A.  Noon  has  been  one  ot  many  strange  scenes  and  circumstances. 
He  was  born  in  Middlesex,  England,  on  the  28th  ot  June,  1837.  His  father  was  a 
professor  of  languages  in  London;  was  educated  in  Goltenberg,  Germany;  served  in 
the  Prussian  navy  and  finally  settled  in  London,  where  he  practiced  his  profession. 
A.  A.  Noon  left  London  for  New  Orleans,  when  but  a  boy,  in  1851  at  the  time  of  the 
^great  excitement  in  California.  From  America  he  went  to  Australia  at  the  time  of  the 
great  rush  to  the  gold  fields,  and  with  that  wave  went  to  Ballarat,  Bendigo,  and  other 
noted  mining  sections.  There  he  prospected  and  worked  in  the  mines,  and  was  rea- 
-sonably  successful.  He  went  from  Australia  to  India  and  was  at  Calcutta  at  the  time 
of  the  excitement  because  of  the  massacre  at  Delli.  From  India  he  went  to  England 
-again;  thence  to  Africa,  where,  in  connection  with  his  brother,  Adolphus  H.  Noon,  he 
Tielped  to  establish,  among  the  first,  the  sugar  enterprise  of  Port  Natal,  and  owned, 
fcy  rental,  the  Ispingo  estate,  a  farm  of  one  thousand  acres,  from  which,  under  their 


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management,  were  shipped  large  quantities  of  sugar,  and  placed  the  estate  in  a 
position  to  ship  hundreds  of  tons  per  year,  so  that  it  is  to-day  one  of  the  great  sugar 
estates  of  Natal.  While  in  Natal  he  was  appointed  quartermaster  of  a  volunteer  com- 
pany for  the  protection  of  the  colony  against  the  savages— Kaffers.  He  visited  the 
Grequas  soon  after  they  first  crossed  the  mountains  to  No  Man's  Land,  and  had  some 
business  with  them,  and  by  some  suggestions,  which  they  acted  upon,  averted  trouble 
between  them  and  the  surrounding  tribes  of  savages.  From  this  country  he  emigrated 
to  America ;  married  in  Nebraska  to  the  oldest  daughter  of  Henry  and  Martha  Smith,. 
who  emigrated  to  this  country  from  Africa.  He  was  one  of  the  contractors  in  Echo* 
Canon,  on  the  U.  P.  R.  R.,  under  Brigham  Young's  contract;  went  to  Tintic, 
Utah,  in  1870,  at  the  opening  of  that  mining  district  and  assisted  in  laying  off  and  lo- 
cating, with  A.  H.  Noon,  the  present  site  of  Eureka  City.  He  always  took  much  in- 
terest in  the  great  iron  deposits  in  that  region  and,  with  A.  H.  Noon,  was  among  the 
early  locaters  there.  Since  1876  he  became  more  and  more  interested  in  those  great 
iron  deposits  and  by  his  continued  perseverance  succeeded  in  getting  an  incorporation 
organized  with  the  leading  men  of  Utah  County,  which  was  accomplished  September 
2,  1884.  These  iron  fields  bid  fair  to  make  of  Provo  a  Pittsburg,  tor  they  are  inex- 
haustible and  are  reierred  to  in  this  pamphlet  elsewhere.  Under  his  management 
the  first  iron  plant  was  made  in  Utah  in  commercial  quantities  and  he  took  the  first 
into  market  and  sold  it.  The  entei  prise  is  still  under  his  management,  as  is  the  Utah* 
Valley  Iron  Mining  and  Manufacturing  Company's  properties.  With  his  son,  Henry 
A.  Noon,  and  Harry  Goodwin,  he  is  now  carrying  on  the  American,  a  paper  devoted 
to  the  mining,  manufacturing  and  the  general  interests  of  the  country. 

grandeur  and  majesty.  Off  to  the  south,  over  an  arm  of  the 
lake,  towers  Mt.  Nebo,  at  a  height  of  12,000  feet.  It  is  but  a 
few  miles  from  the  city,  and  all  through  the  year  eternal  snow 
crowns  its  sky-embosomed  head.  The  peaks  that  stand  as- 
ever  watchful  sentinels  to  the  east  of  the  city,  are  over  10,OOO 
feet  high,  and  have  all  the  characteristics  of  the  Alps,  save 
only,  it  may  be,  the  never  departing  snows.  In  the  fall  of  the 
year,  when  the  foliage  is  brightened  by  the  early  frosts,  they 
present  that  rich  picture  which  makes  the  mountain  home 
always  the  one  endearing  spot  in  after  life.  The  beauty  of 
the  autumnal  tints  everywhere  shown  in  contrast  with  the 
rugged,  worn,  seared,  seamed  and  scarred  visage  of  the  granite 
fronts,  cliffs  and  precipices,  form  a  picture  too  enduring  to> 
fade  away  from  the  mind  with  change  of  scene  and  home,  as. 
in  softer  and  milder  localities. 

The  abundance  of  winged  game  about  Utah  Lake  in  early- 
days,  made  it  a  noted  resort  for  the  Ute  Indian,  after  whom,. 
as  already  stated,  the  county  and  territory  seem  to  have  been 
named.  And  it  is  a  pity  the  other  names  of  springs  and  creeks 
in  this  lovely  basin  have  not  been  preserved  as  well  as  that  of 
the  "Timpanogas,"  "Pomountquint,"  "Waketeke,"  "Pin- 


PROVO   ILLUSTRATED.  43 

quan,"  "  Pequinnetta,"  "Petenete,"  "Pungun,"  "Watago," 
"Onapah,"  "Timpah,"  "Mouna,"  etc.  These  have  all  been 
superseded  and  their  memory  seems  to  fast  he  fading  away, 
like  the  races  to  whom  they  were  first  known. 

The  suburbs  of  Provo  are  essentially  pastoral  in  their  air, 
quiet  and  pastoral  in  their  surroundings.  Here  the  scene  is 
such  that  one  weary  of  life,  after  searching  through  all  the 
world  for  the  rest  denied  under  busier  skies,  might  at  last  find 


JAS.  E.  DANIELS- 

James  E.  Daniels,  son  oi  James  Daniels  and  Elizabeth  Salthouse,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary, 1825,  in  Manchester,  England.  He  emigrated  to  the  United  States  in  the  fall 
of  1842  with  his  mother's  family,  in  the  ship  Medford,  and  landed  at  New  Orleans. 
In  passing  up  the  river  they  were  ice-bound  at  St.  Louis  during  the  winter.  In  the  spring 
of  1843  ne  went  to  Quincy,  111.,  where  he  had  a  sister  living.  From  here  in  1845  he  moved 
to  Nauvoo,  where  he  worked  at  cabinet  making.  After  the  Exodus  from  Nauvoo  he 
moved  back  to  Quincy,  111.,  and  fitted  out  for  the  trip  to  Salt  Lake  Valley.  Crossing 
the  Plains  in  1850,  in  Captain  Milo  Andrus'  company,  he  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  the 
last  of  August,  of  that  year.  He  had  married  the  year  previously,  and  stayed  in  Salt 
Lake  City  until  December,  when  he  moved  to  Utah  county  and  assisted  in  founding 
the  town  of  IVyson,  his  being  the  fourth  family  that  settled  at  that  place.  lie  next 
moved  to  Provo  City  in  the  fall  of  1854,  where  he  has  resided  until  the  present  time. 


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He  worked  at  the  carpenter  business  until  1870,  when,  on  the  resignation  of  E.  F. 
Sheets,  he  was  appointed  Assessor  and  Collector  for  Utah  county. 

In  1874  he  was  elected  county  Recorder,  and  also  county  Treasurer,  which  offices 
he  filled  until  the  year  1882.  He  was  again  elected  to  those  offices  at  the  last  general 
election.  He  also  served  two  terms  in  the  Provo  City  Council  as  Alderman,  and  fig- 
ured to  some  extent  in  the  military  affairs  of  the  county.  He  was  with  General  Pace 
in  the  Black  Hawk  war  in  San  Pete,  acting  as  Adjutant  on  his  staft.  He  served  in 
the  famous  Echo  Canyon  Expedition,  and  was  afterward  elected  Lieutenant-Colonel 
of  the  first  Regiment  of  Utah  county  Militia,  under  L.  John,  Nuttall,  Colonel.  He  was 
commissioned  by  Governor  Durkee,  and  held  that  rank  when  the  Utah  Militia  was 
disbanded. 

some  comfort  of  life,  with  the  promise  of  peace  and  freedom 
that  nature  holds  out  in  this  beautiful  region. 

The  scenery  in  Provo  Canon  and,  in  fact,  throughout  the 
different  canons  that  open  into  this  valley  of  valleys,  outrivals 
that  of  more  famed  localities  in  Colorado.  The  "  Bridal  Veil 
Falls,"  with  their  numerous  cascades,  broken  into  a  gauzy  veil 
as  they  pour  over  numberless  rocks,  until  there  is  left  of  the 
stream  nothing  but  the  white  spray,  over  which  the  rainbow 
tints  play  wherever  the  sun  strikes  it,  is  pronounced  by  artists 
to  be  among  the  most  beautiful  and  picturesque  bits  of  scenery 
which  the  whole  Rocky  Mountain  region  affords ;  [while  the 
grandeur  of  the  canon  at  the  mouth,  with  its  high  browed  cliffs 
and  deeply-seamed-face,  is  uneclipsed  by  and  no  less  impressive 
than  the  far-famed  "Garden  of  the  Gods."  Moreover,  the 
abundance  of  large  game — of  deer,  of  antelope,  and  of  bear — 
in  the  mountains  will  add  an  additional  charm  to  those  who 
are  interested  in  hunting  sports  :  while  the  easy  distance  with 
which  game  can  be  found  in  this  region,  robs  hunting  of 
the  labor  that  characterizes  it  elsewhere,  and  makes  it  to 
those  who  like  that  sort  of  recreation,  a  source  of  unmixed 
pleasure. 

The  climate  is  equable  and  bracing  during  the  falj,  winter 
and  spring  months,  while  the  heat  of  summer  is  tempered  and 
its  enervating  tendencies  mitigated  by  cool  winds.  The  air  is 
invigorating,  bracing  and  wonderfully  pure  and  clear,  and 
the  nights,  naturally  pleasant,  are  made  the  more  delightful 
by  the  night  wind  which,  sweeping  from  the  canons  and  down 
the  ravines,  and  in  its  flight  passing  over  the  untrodden  snow 
of  ages,  refreshes  the  body  and  more  than  compensates  for 
whatever  of  heat  may  have  been  felt  during  the  day. 

A  bathing  resort  has  already  been  established  on  the  shores 


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45 


of  the  lake,  and  at  a  point  where  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande 
Railway  skirts  the  edge  of  the  water,  a  grove  of  trees  has  been 
planted  and  is  in  a  flourishing  condition.  The  shore  and  bot- 
tom is  hard  and  sandy  and  is  sheltered  by  a  bluff  some  fifteen 
feet  high,  which  protects  it  from  the  east  winds.  The  tem- 
perature of  the  water  is,  during  the  bathing  season,  warmer 
than  that  of  the  ocean;  and  the  fact  that  fishing  may  be  in- 
dulged in,  together  with  yachting  and  bathing,  will  give  to 
Utah  Lake  an  advantage  over  any  other  resort  in  the  territory. 


HON.  JOHN  B.  MILNER. 

Hon.  John  B.  Milner  was  born  at  Grindley-on-the-Hill,  Nottingham,  England, 
January  27,  1830,  and  came  to  Utah  in  185$.  Ue  received  a  good  education  which 
he  improved  by  persistent  application  during  leisure  hours,  and  which  did  him  excel- 
lent service  in  his  subsequent  career  in  the  literary  and  professional  world.  In  1854 
he  took  up  his  residence  in  Frovo,  which  has  been  his  permanent  home  ever  since. 
For  a  brief  period,  after  settling  in  Provo,  he  was  engaged  in  school  teaching,  but 
devoted  much  of  his  time  to  the  study  of  law  in  which  he  soon  developed  both  a  fond- 
ness and  aptitude.  His  subsequent  and  prominent  identification  with  the  bar  of 
Provo  brought  him  before  the  public  in  all  of  the  important  cases  on  trial  in  the  local 
and  district  courts.  In  the  celebrated  trials  before  Judge  Cradlebaugh,  Mr.  Milner 
left  nothing  in  doubt  as  to  his  ability,  and  he  has  ever  since  been  classed  among  the 
able  lawyers  of  the  Territory,  few  possessing  greater  powers  of  eloquence  as  a  pleader. 


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At  various  times  during  his  protracted  residence  in  Provo  he  has  filled  the  offices  ot 
Internal  Revenue  Assessor,  District,  County  and  City  Attorney,  Justice  of  the  Peace, 
County  Assessor  and  Collector,  and  has  sat  in  the  City  Council  and  in  the  Territorial 
Legislature,  where  his  eloquence  as  a  speaker,  received  due  recognition.  Mr.  Milner 
has  also  been  prominent  in  the  religious  affairs  of  his  church  and  is  regarded  to-day 
as  one  of  the  ablest  and  most  eloquent  preachers  in  the  Territory. 

It  demands  no  unreasonable  stretch  of  the  imagination  to 
picture  in  the  mind's  eye  an  early  day  when,  along  the  shores 
of  this  lovely  stretch  of  water,  for  miles  and  miles,  there  will 
be  beautiful  drives,  handsome  villas,  surrounded  by  private 
gardens,  ornamented  and  adorned.  And  during  the  summer, 
pleasure  boats  will  ply  from  point  to  point  on  the  lake ;  while 
its  bosom  will  be  dotted  with  the  white  sails  of  countless 
yachts  dancing  upon  its  tiny  waves.  This,  with  those  rich 
and  rare  sunsets,  known  only  to  the  Rocky  Mountain  region, 
when  the  heavens  burn  with  living  colors ;  when  cloud  upon 
cloud,  towering  high  above  each  other  in  the  pure  atmosphere 
seems  bent  upon  destruction ;  or,  when  the  rays  from  the  sink- 
ing sun  melt  the  mild  heavens  into  the  tenderest  tints,  throwing 
a  halo  of  light  and  radiant  glory  over  the  darkening  earth — 
all,  all  give  that  variety  so  necessary  to  the  soul  of  him  who 
loves  nature  for  nature's  dear  self. 

A  PROVO  MORNING. 

The  " Industrialist"  of  Provo  has  the  following  co-ming- 
ling of  the  sublime  and  the  ridiculous,  which  yet  tells  a  tale 
of  the  beauty  and  loveliness  of  a  morning  in  this  charmed 
spot: 

Provo  has  one  peculiarity  about  it,  that  is  not  experienced 
in  any  other  town  along  the  base  of  the  Wasatch  Mountains. 
In  other  climes  and  in  other  places  twilight  begins  after  sun- 
set, but  here  we  have  it  before  sunrise.  At  this  point  of  the 
range  there  are  no  foothills ;  no  gradual  slope,  nor  benches  ; 
and  Centre  Street  runs  slap  up  to  the  big  toe  of  the  Wasatch. 
On  the  western  side  of  Utah  Lake  we  see  the  sunlight  on  the 
peaks  of  the  Oquirrh  range,  filling  its  ragged  sides  with  a  glow 
far  beyond  the  reach  of  the  artist's  brush.  But  it  is  yet  twi- 
light in  Provo  for  the  majestic  sun  has  hours  yet  in  which  to 
climb  up  the  mighty  wall  that  bound  us  on  the  east  before  he 
pokes  his  head  over  the  summit  to  bid  us  good  morning.  And 


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what  a  morning  !  The  pines,  the  massive  rocks,  the  autumn 
tinted  groves,  yawning  precipices,  the  snows  of  centuries 
perched  away  up  amid  the  clouds  ;  the  awful  grandeur  of 
^ach  intensified  in  the  smiles  of  the  God  of  day. 

It  is  a  scene  well  worth  traveling  to  behold — well  worth 
lying  over  one  night  in  Provo  to  experience.  Old  travelers 
declare  that  during  the  course  of  their  wanderings  over  the 
•earth,  scenes  were  encountered  that  enchanted  other  senses 
besides  that  of  sight.  They  desired  to  be  alone,  for  there  was 
something  supernatural  in  their  surroundings  and  the  sound 
of  a  human  voice  would  be  sacriligious.  We  felt  that  way 
upon  first  beholding  a  Provo  sunrise,  and  while  standing  at 
the  chamber  window  in  the  face  of  nature  and  the  mighty 
works  of  God,  there  was  wonder  crept  through  our  heart  as 
^111  urchin  yelled  out  from  the  veranda,  "say  mister,  if  yer 
want  yer  breakfast  yer  got  to  hustle.  The  spuds  are  on  the 
table  an'  dad  done  said  grace." 

CONCLUSION. 

That  Provo  is  destined  to  be  a  great  city,  none  who  know 
tier  opportunities,  or  who  appreciate  the  extent  of  her  re- 
sources can  doubt.  The  day  of  her  more  rapid  growth  may 
be  delayed  beyond  what  is  now  anticipated.  We  do  not  think 
so.  But  it  will  come  as  sure  as  the  sun  is  to  rise.  If  the 
united  effort  of  all  her  citizens  avail  aught ;  if  there  be  any 
teaching  in  the  experience  of  the  past ;  if  a  heaven  blessed 
•country,  of  boundless  mineral  resource,  and  almost  limitless 
-agricultural  productions  ;  if  healthful  influences  and  equabili- 
ty of  climate;  if  the  greatest  of  natural  attractions  give  prom- 
ise of  due  appreciation,  then  is  Provo  destined  to  become  a 
•city  of  importance  and  those  who  come  earliest  will  be  made 
most  welcome  and  will  participate  in  the  fortune  and  favors 
that  await  the  honest,  thrifty  and  industrious,  the  health  seek- 
er and  the  lover  of  virtuous  pleasures. 


